Beneficial

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ben=e=fi=cial

CIDE DICTIONARY

Beneficial, a. [Cf. F. bénéficial, LL. beneficialis.].

•  Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.  [1913 Webster]

  "The war which would have been most beneficial to us."  [1913 Webster]
•  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.  Kent.  [1913 Webster]
•  King.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- See Advantage.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Beneficial, adj.
1 advantageous; having benefits.
2 Law relating to the use or benefit of property; having rights to this use or benefit.

Derivative

beneficially adv.

Etymology

ME f. F b{eacute}n{eacute}ficial or LL beneficialis (as BENEFICE)

THESAURUS

Beneficial

advantageous, aidful, appropriate, auspicious, banausic, benevolent, benign, bon, bonny, bracing, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, constitutional, constructive, contributory, effective, efficacious, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, fitting, functional, furthersome, good, good for, goodly, grand, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, kind, laudable, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, pleasant, positive, practical, pragmatical, profitable, proper, refreshing, regal, remedial, royal, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, serviceable, skillful, sound, splendid, supportive, therapeutic, tonic, useful, utilitarian, valid, very good, virtuous, wholesome

ROGET THESAURUS

Beneficial

Good

N good, benefit, advantage, improvement, greatest good, supreme good, interest, service, behoof, behalf, weal, main chance, summum bonum, common weal, consummation devoutly to be wished, gain, boot, profit, harvest, boon, good turn, blessing, world of good, piece of good luck, piece of good fortune, nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove, good fortune, happiness, goodness, utility, remedy, pleasure giving, commendable, useful, good, beneficial, well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis, all for the best, to one's advantage, in one's favor, in one's interest, so far so good, magnum bonum.

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.